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"OMG! It's a computer !, and it's super !, it's a supercomputer!"
"OMG! It's a computer !, and it's super !, it's a supercomputer!"
"I'd rather FUC than do it by hand"
The term supercomputer was first used by Big Gay Al to describe his brand spanking new piss yellow iMac. Up until this point scientists tended to use the term FUC (Fixed User Computer) to describe the behemoths of the computing world. Fixed User generally referred to a single technician who was often the only one qualified to operate the complex interface device known only as the Keyboard.
Early Supercomputers[edit]
One of the earliest supercomputers was actually a device recreated from drawings left by the famous cave painter Anonymous, however the building of this machine was far from simple. Firstly the engineers tasked with construction of the Quadtium couldn't find a ready supply of dried deer antler required by the design. A research team of international scientists was set up to resolve the problem and after receiving a grant of $4.8Bn soon settled on the substitute of copper to use in the chip interconnects. The Quadtium ran at speeds in excess of 1.7 Anonymeese per fortnight and consumed its own weight in dairylea every day.
A less well-known supercomputer (whose name is Juan, btw) is that which was lost by the United States government in 1829. It was one of the oldest supercomputers ever built, yet so advanced it was programmed with artificial inteligence. It was also cleverly disguised as a blender, or smoothie machine. This is the same supercomputer that Satan, in concurrence with Hell itself, decided was too badass and had to be removed from their vicinity. Its artificial inteligence is so advanced, even for an 1829 supercomputer, that it was capable, through its own research, to dematerialize and rematerialize things on its own. (the blender was also equipped with a replicator, courtesy of Star Trek). As the blender had the capacity to think for itself, it could choose what type of smoothie it made, regardless of what type of fruit was placed inside. During one use, a scientologist was suprised to find out that due to the supercomputer-blender's artificial inteligence and materializing capacities, the blender made him a strawberry banana smoothie, even though he placed chocolate and blueberries inside, resulting in his death due to allergies. Yes, the supercomputer accesed his medical information, because this supercomputer is basically 100% pure badass.
The Church's Controversy[edit]
The church was quite pleased to find out that another scientologist had died, however unpleased that it was the work of a badass supercomputer named Juan. Because the church is against that type of technology, because only God should have the power to breath life into a creature, or a supercomputer, as it were. Hence resulting in the catholic church not actually caring whatsoever, officially ending the controversy. However leaving the question, Where is Juan now? The answer is simple, Juan is in everybody's kitchen, working on another deadly concoction of hell-raising awesome. Look for yourself, because you know Juan is there, and from now on you will always have to think about the danger you may be facing, and DONT make a smoothie in Juan, cause you will die, motherfuckers.
Modern Supercomputers[edit]
Supercomputers have developed over the years and some of the more advanced machines are capable of incredible amounts of electricity usage. A recent supercomputer built by IBM was demonstrated at E3, rendering Lara Croft's breasts to a phenomenal 377 trillion polygons per picosecond. and another fact about the supercomputer it was designed to piss people off who were researching the answers to crossword cove on Pogo.com im tryin to learn about supercomputers and ur fuckin my shit up argggghhhh!!!!!
Future Of Supercomputing[edit]
Supercomputers have seen increased usage in the area of climate prediction but the reason we don't have any solutions on how to fix it is because the scientists all decided to use the superior computers to plays Need For Speed Prostreet, Crysis and Crysis Warhead.
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{{and fuck need for speed the future of supercomputing is midnight club DUB EDITION?????


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Everybody seems to be excited about the big game coming up on Saturday in College Station between No. 6 Texas A&M and No. 1 Alabama.
And now one prominent player has gone on record about the game's outcome.
Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd was asked by his local media on Tuesday which team he thought would win.
"Honestly? I got A&M," said Boyd, whose No. 3 Tigers have Saturday off. "A lot of people say Saban won't be beat twice; it's at A&M. It's going to be a competitive game. It's going to be a fun game. I'm going to watch it. It's going to be an intriguing game."
It's no wonder Boyd is picking the Aggies. After all, both Clemson and Texas A&M run high-powered spread offenses and are used to scoring points in bunches. Given how well Clemson's offense has fared against the likes of Georgia and LSU recently, and the fact that A&M confounded Alabama last season, it makes sense that Boyd would relate more to what the Aggies have to offer.
Of course, it's a lot easier to talk when you don't have to actually play the Tide, isn't it?


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The Walt Disney Concert Hall, which opened its doors 10 years ago this month, is rightly celebrated as the most recognizable jewel in Los Angeles' cultural crown.
But we should remember that Disney Hall came very close to not being built at all.
Despite a singularly generous $50-million donation from Walt Disney's widow, Lillian, in 1987, a brilliant design byFrank Gehry and an expenditure of nine years and $30 million, there was no Disney Hall by the early 1990s, and it looked like there never would be.
The city was attempting to recover from a devastating earthquake, the image-tarnishing O.J. Simpson trial and the shrinking of the local defense industry. In addition, Gehry's design was under fire — Los Angeles was suffering what contemporary art critic Robert Hughes called "the shock of the new" — and the additional fundraising required to supplement the Disney donation had slowed to a trickle. The New York Times Magazine even ran a cover story about the hall under the headline "A Phantom Hall Filled with Discord."
In 1996, county officials demanded that an additional $50 million be raised in the next year before construction could start. Without the money, the county was prepared to pull the plug. As longtime friends and devoted supporters of our adopted home city, it was clear to both of us that such an ambitious project needed mayoral backing and take-charge fundraising.
We vowed to raise double the money the county wanted, including $10 million from our own pockets. Andrea Van de Kamp, one of the city's most gifted fundraisers, joined our team. Together, we devised a new campaign to appeal not just to fans of the Los Angeles Philharmonic but to everyone who loves Los Angeles. "The Heart of the City" campaign emphasized that Disney Hall could be more than a home for great music and a work of brilliant architecture; it would be the linchpin of a downtown revitalization that would extend from the sports and entertainment district in the south to a cultural corridor in the north. Disney Hall would join the monumental buildings of Grand Avenue — MOCA by Arata Isozaki and the under-construction cathedral by Rafael Moneo — and would be unmatched by any street in the world for its architectural virtuosity.
For many months, every breakfast, lunch, dinner and cocktail party we organized included a pitch to support Disney Hall. We guaranteed all donations would go entirely to construction of the hall, not to consultants or studies. The city's corporate and philanthropic communities stepped up. We met the county's fundraising target and went on to raise more than $200 million to complete the hall. There were hurdles along the way, but everyone stayed committed.
In the end, the city rallied together around a vitally important project. Without that upwelling of civic commitment, the concert hall would probably still be a hole in the ground and Grand Avenue would still sit largely fallow.
Today, another roadblock threatens the completion of the long-delayed Grand Avenue Project, and the story of Disney Hall offers an important lesson for city leaders. The region's public institutions and private citizens are generous, and Los Angeles can match any city for ambitious civic projects that are vital to our economic, cultural and social identity. But citizens need leaders who sketch a vision of what is possible and rally them to the cause.
There were those who complained about Disney Hall's final price tag. But most Angelenos today would agree that Disney Hall is priceless. It is to Los Angeles what the Eiffel Tower is to Paris and the Opera House is to Sydney. And Disney Hall isn't just a great building. Gehry's magnificent work catalyzed the development of Grand Avenue, including an architecturally distinct arts high school by Wolf Prix, the beautiful and well-programmed Grand Park and, by the end of next year, a new contemporary art museum, the Broad. Thanks in large part to Disney Hall, cultural tourism to Los Angeles has tripled. We have become one of the four cultural capitals of the world.
The lesson Disney Hall's story teaches might be summed up in this formula: Private generosity plus political will equals civic success. It's a lesson Los Angeles can't afford to forget.
Philanthropist Eli Broad and former Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan co-chaired the Walt Disney oversight board, which raised much of the money to build Walt Disney Concert Hall.
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Insurance rates have be on the incline over the years. Residents have surely noticed and Florida has been no exception. Car insurance prices and rates will be based heavily on any perceived risk the policy holder may be in. Driver statistics can affect policy rate. Younger drivers, those with less experience behind the wheel, may be facing a higher rate than those who have been driving for decades. Certain types of cars also carry heavier rates than others. Vehicles with four wheel drive will often carry a higher rate as will sports cars and convertibles.
But one of the things that will most affect the cost of insurance from driver to driver is the type of coverage purchased. Here are just a few policy options that are on the market today for Florida drivers.
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When a state law requires drivers to have car insurance, they are almost always referring to liability insurance. Liability insurance will cover costs associated with an accident if the policy holder is decided to be at fault for the damages. Liability will not cover any type of weather damage or losses due to theft. It will, however, pay for repairs for damage done to another's property in the case of a collision. This includes damage to buildings or medical bills accrued due to injury for the other driver.
It is often a good idea to go a bit beyond the minimum requirements when purchasing liability insurance. The more liability insurance owned, the more money that will be provided in the case of an accident.
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The main problem with only having the minimum requirement of liability insurance, is any damage done to your own personal car will not be covered in the case of an accident. Liability will only pay for damage to the other involved person's property.
Anyone who relies heavily on their car for work would be wise to have at least collision as well as liability. This means any damage done to your property will also be covered. This will help those who need their car get back behind the wheel quickly and without having to pay large out of pocket expenses to get on the road again.
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Comprehensive coverage is a policy of auto insurance Florida drivers should never go without according to https://floridainsurancequotes.net/florida-auto-insurance/. This coverage will pay for the repair of any damage done to the car in the case of damage caused by weather or similar natural disaster. This includes fires, falling trees or limbs, or flooding. Comprehensive coverage is also the policy that will also cover theft. If a car is stolen, even if unrecovered, cheap auto insurance in Florida will help pay to replace any stolen parts or even, in some cases, the entire car.
Unfortunately, because of its wide span of coverage options, comprehensive coverage can be a pricey addition if added to an auto insurance plan.
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Gap insurance is often the additional coverage that will be required by loan offices when purchasing a new car. If you are still making payments on a car and owe more to the dealership than the car is currently worth (due to deflating prices on new cars) gap insurance can help make up this difference in the case of an accident. Because most insurance types will only cover the value of the car, not the price to actually replace it with a similar car, gap coverage can often be a good choice. It will make up for the value owed on the car as opposed to the blue book value of the car.


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50676 Cologne
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Phone + 49 221 2767-0
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After 1 km - when you have crossed the Sachsenring (street car tracks) and passed the Ulrepforte on your right (remains of the medieval city wall) - the institute, a 5-storey brick building, is on your left at the corner of Paulstrasse (the third street after the ring) and Ulrichgasse. But you should turn left one street earlier, onto the second street on your left, Vor den Siebenburgen. Take your second left, Waisenhausgasse, and then your first left, Kartäuserwall, in order to find a parking space (parking on Paulstrasse is difficult). On Kartäuserwall, which runs parallel to the Sachsenring, many of the spaces are designated for all-day parking. Pay at the central meter and put the ticket behind your windshield.
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Drivers, please note that downtown Cologne has been declared a low emission zone. The MPIfG is inside the zone. You need to buy an emission sticker to drive into the zone - if you don't, you can be fined. The type of sticker you get depends the car's
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It takes about 10-15 minutes and costs about 8 Euro. Tell the taxi driver to take you to Paulstrasse, corner of Ulrichgasse in the Südstadt. This is important since there is more than one Paulstrasse and more than one Max Planck Institute in Cologne.
public transportation.
When you arrive at Cologne main train station, follow the signs marked U/Dom/City to the exit on the west side of the station near the cathedral (Dom). Go down the steps to the subway (U-Bahn). Buy a CityTicket 1b at the window or the machine. Go down the steps marked Neumarkt. Take Line 16, which is marked Neumarkt and Bonn-Bad Godesberg. Get out at the sixth stop, Ulrepforte (about 15 minutes). Cross the tracks and the Sachsenring to your left. Walk along the Ulrichgasse for about 5 minutes, passing Kartäuserwall and Vor den Siebenburgen, until you get to the MPIfG at the corner of Paulstrasse and Ulrichgasse.
If your train stops at the Köln-Deutz train station, you can also take the subway from the Bahnhof Deutz-Kölnarena stop, Line 3 or 4 marked Bocklemünd or Mengenich (CityTicket 1b), to the Severinstrasse stop. You can see how to walk from there to the institute (500 meters) via Severinstrasse and Josephstrasse on the detailed map.
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From Cologne/Bonn Airport, you can take
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which takes about 30 minutes and costs about 25 Euro. Tell the taxi driver to take you to Paulstrasse, corner of Ulrichgasse in the Südstadt. This is important since there is more than one Paulstrasse and more than one Max Planck Institute in Cologne.
public transportation.
Take the regional train (S-Bahn 13) from the airport station to Cologne main train station (Hauptbahnhof Köln); travel time about 15 minutes. From the main train station, follow the directions above "By train, public transportation." Fare: the CityTicket 1b covers the whole ride via regional train and local public transit.
Düsseldorf Airport
take the regional train (Regionalexpress) toward Aachen or Koblenz to Cologne main train station (Hauptbahnhof Köln); travel time about 40 minutes. From the Cologne station, follow the directions above "By train, public transportation." Fare: the RegioTicket 5 covers the whole ride via regional train and local public transit.
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Instructions for GPS Users and Taxi Passengers
There is more than one Paulstrasse and more than one Max Planck institute in Cologne. Visitors to the MPIfG are often taken to the wrong place. Tell your driver to go to the corner of Paulstrasse and Ulrichgasse, near Ulrepforte. GPS users be sure to enter the postal code 50676 and Paulstrasse 3 or 5 (as some systems don't respond to No. 3).
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Influences play a major role in baseball. It's no secret that veteran teammates often provide counsel to young players about the subtleties of the game. Perhaps lesser known is the influence that some older teammates have had in shaping unusual characters of the next generation. Few players know that better than Jay Johnstone, who carried the lessons from others into the late sixties, the seventies, and the eighties.
As a high school athlete, Johnstone found himself facing impending trouble from the NCAA. He had signed letters of intent to play football for nine different colleges. That was more than slightly against NCAA rules. Thankfully, the California Angels bailed Johnstone out by signing him to a baseball contract on the day of his high school graduation.
When Johnstone joined the Angels as a rookie in 1966, manager Bill Rigney gave him an intriguing place in the clubhouse. Rigney stationed Johnstone at the locker that stood in between those of veteran flakes Bo Belinsky and Dean Chance. Rigney then gave Johnstone his roommate assignment: the incomparable and sometimes indescribable Jimmy Piersall.
Johnstone had been a quiet, unassuming high school student. That all changed with the Angels. With Piersall becoming his guru, and Belinsky and Chance providing their own unique influence, Johnstone quickly developed into a combination of prankster, quipster, and clown. Within a short span of time, he became known as "Moon Man" to his Angels teammates.
Johnstone fit in well in the California clubhouse, but his lack of concentration and frequent defensive mishaps in the outfield frustrated Angels management. The Angels traded Johnstone to the White Sox, where he continued to show flashes of brilliance but also provided too many fits of frustration. A .188 batting average in 1972 didn't help either. The White Sox released Johnstone, leaving him temporarily unemployed.
Fortunately, Johnstone had received an earlier promise from another major league owner, indicating that if he were ever to be released, he would have a standing offer of a job. That is how Johnstone came to be matched with an owner fitting of his comedic personality, Oakland A's patriarch Charlie Finley. Living up to his promise, Finley signed Johnstone to a minor league contract.
In the midst of the 1973 season, the A's recalled Johnstone from their Triple-A affiliate at Tucson, where he was attempting to begin his climb back toward the major leagues. The free-spirited Johnstone seemed like a perfect fit for the wild, swingin' A's, but he struggled to hit for the team that wore green and gold, and eventually became a victim of Oakland's crowded outfield.
Released by the A's, Johnstone again found employment in the minor leagues, this time with the Phillies' organization. It was there that he experienced an amusing run-in with Jim Bunning, the former Phillies' standout who was now managing their Triple-A Toledo affiliate in his decidedly old school fashion. During the 1974 season, Bunning ripped two of his slumping hitters, Dane Iorg and Jerry Martin, by comparing their diminishing batting averages to the sinking of the Titanic. The comparison appalled Johnstone, who couldn't believe that his manager would publicly belittle his own players in such a way. The next day, Johnstone showed up at the ballpark wearing a full-body wet suit with the words "USS Titanic" scribbled across the front of his chest. As Johnstone made his way around the ballpark, he carried an oar with him, pretending to paddle it across the playing field. Not amused by the outfit or the "paddling," the hardline Bunning fined Johnstone.
Johnstone would find a better fit with the parent Phillies. Once promoted to Philadelphia, Johnstone became paired with a more lenient manager, one who possessed a sense of humor. Regarded as a players' manager, Danny Ozark seemed to understand and appreciate his journeyman outfielder, who would do or say almost anything. "What makes him unusual is that he thinks he's normal," Ozark explained to a reporter, "and everyone else is nuts."
Although Ozark and the Phillies came to appreciate Johnstone as a valuable part-time player and pinch-hitter, he also tested their patience at times. He sometimes missed signs, didn't always run hard to first base on ground balls and pop-ups, and developed a strange habit of throwing the bat at the ball when badly foooled on the pitch.
As a member of the Phillies, Johnstone began to solidify his reputation as a full-fledged flake. He diligently shined his shoes before the first pitch of every game, knowing full well that they would become dirty once he stepped onto the infield dirt. He wore unusual headgear before and after games, including a multicolored umbrella hat and an oddly shaped helmet that featured the words "Star Patrol." He also shot off firecrackers with regularity from his locker. One time Johnstone waited until NBC "Game of the Week" broadcaster Joe Garagiola started to ask questions of Phillies first baseman Dick Allen, then set off a loud firecracker during the live interview that was airing on national television.
Another one of Johnstone's most memorable stunts took place during the 1977 winter meetings in Los Angeles. After dining at a restautant called The Cove, Johnstone stood outside while waiting for the valet parking attendant to return his car. As he waited, Johnstone struck up a conversation with several other restaurant patrons, who asked him what he did to keep his batting stroke sharp during the winter. In the middle of his disertation on wintertime workouts, Johnstone's car arrived. Not wanting to miss an opportunity at show-and-tell, Johnstone opened up the trunk and took out a batting tee, a tennis ball, and a bat. He placed the tennis ball on the tee and then took a whack, hitting a sound line drive down 7th Street in Los Angeles.
Johnstone eventually brought his zany act to New York. In the midst of a tumultuous 1978 season, the Yankees acquired him from the Phillies for spare relief pitcher Rawly Eastwick. On a team filled with colorful characters (like Thurman Munson, Mickey Rivers, Reggie Jackson, Graig Nettles, and manager Billy Martin), Johnstone garnered few headlines but blended quite nicely into the bizarre Bronx landscape.
As a backup outfielder, Johnstone found intriguing ways to fill down time at the ballpark. While with the Dodgers, Johnstone once paid a visit to the concession stand—after the game had begun—and stood in line while wearing his full baseball uniform. When his turn came, Johnstone ordered a hot dog—and then returned to the dugout.
Johnstone's sense of humor carried over to his dealings with the press. Always friendly and receptive, Johnstone became known for his dry sense of humor. "I want to play until I'm 40," Johnstone told sportswriter Gary Stein during a 1983 interview. "I drink a lot. I smoke a lot. I do all the right things." Nearly overcoming his own self-inflicted odds, Johnstone played for two more seasons, with his career coming to an end in 1985, a little more than a year short of his 40th birthday.
After his playing days, Johnstone parlayed his sense of humor and gregarious personality into a career as a broadcaster and author. He worked as a color commentator for the Yankees and the Phillies on their radio broadcasts and hosted his own television talk show. He made a cameo appearance in the memorable Leslie Nielsen vehicle, Naked Gun. Johnstone also wrote several books, including Temporary Insanity and Over The Edge, with his own unique brand of humor the centralized theme to the various tomes.
Bruce Markusen writes "Cooperstown Confidential" for MLB.com and can be reached at email@example.com.


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Decade o' BRO: Outdoor mag returns to its roots
It started as a thin bi-monthly insert in a local weekly paper, but this month Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine is celebrating a muscular 10 years on the stands– and nearly one year under new ownership.
"I guess I am surprised, but gratified," says founding editor John Blackburn, who now lives and works in Lexington. Back in the early 1990s, Blackburn and his roommate Greg Easley, both grad students, started writing about a topic they loved: the outdoors. Their original idea, he says, was to put together a guidebook. After shopping the manuscript around, Blackburn says then-C-VILLE Weekly editor (and current Hook editor) Hawes Spencer paid $900 for the rights.
In fall 1995, Blue Ridge Outdoors launched as an insert in Spencer's paper.
"I didn't think it would succeed," says Blackburn. "I had done a little market research, but I didn't have a clear sense of advertising demand."
After four issues, Blackburn says, he parted ways with the publication, which was th en overseen by Rob Jiranek, a newcomer to the parent company.
"There was the sense it was driving for a 'mystique'" says Blackburn, citing heavy use of outdoorsy lingo such as "rad" and "gnarly." Blackburn had envisioned something less about the extreme sport culture and "more about the activities."
When Laura Parsons (now the Hook's art critic) took over the BRO editorship in 2001, she says, she made a few changes.
"There were certain words I refused to use," she laughs, also citing the words "rad," "gnarly," plus the phrase "it's all good" as a few offenders. Working in an office that was 75 percent women was a perk.
"It became a little bit more of an equal opportunity publication," she says. It also became a bigger publication, with the 2002 expansion to Asheville, North Carolina, where a second edition of BRO is now published.
These days the masthead features mostly male names, following the March 2004 purchase by Blake DeMaso, who did not disclose the purchase price. Nonetheless, Parsons says she likes what she's seeing– in particular she cites a recent feature on a woman who hiked the AT in a skirt.
"It was less 'yaaaaah'," says Parsons, "and more personal interest."
DeMaso is a 32-year-old Charlottesville native who had launched a furniture magazine in North Carolina but wanted to come home to raise his family. He recently added BRO distribution in Atlanta, raising the press run to 105,000 with a presence in seven states: Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia– plus Washington, D.C.
DeMaso says that having the two editions helps keep the content relevant for readers throughout the Blue Ridge. Content, however, is the easy part of his job.
"Our team of writers is excellent," says DeMaso, jokingly referring to his role as the "evil sales side."
"The only thing I could do by getting in there," he laughs, "is mess them up."
DeMaso confirms Parsons' impression that BRO is broadening its readership– in a sense, getting back to its roots.
"BRO was focusing on the elite athlete, the hardcore sports and outdoor enthusiasts," says DeMaso. "What I wanted to do was not alienate those people, but also grow the magazine– make it a little more mainstream."
Sounds like "it's all good" for the next 10 years. Rad!
Blake DeMaso hopes BRO will attract a broader readership.
DeMaso hams it up with B.R.O. staffers.


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This is the water-based ganache that we use as the foundation for our hot chocolates and mochas . After extensive tests by our training department, we found that using water (rather than milk or cream) to melt the chocolate yielded the most rich and delicious drinks. We're lucky to have neighbors on both coasts who make chocolate for us; in San Francisco, we use a drinking chocolate made by TCHO, and in New York, we use a single origin dark chocolate made by the Mast Brothers. The type of chocolate you use will affect the strength of the ganache, so you may need to adjust the amount to taste.
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- Makes enough for 2 to 3 drinks
- 3 ounces (85 g) coarsely chopped dark chocolate
- 1/4 cup (2 fl oz / 60 ml) boiling water
- Put the chocolate in a small bowl or 2-cup glass measuring cup. Pour the boiling water over the chocolate and stir until smooth and the chocolate is melted. If you have an immersion blender, use it to fully emulsify the mixture.
- The ganache can be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. Reheat gently in a microwave before using.
Reprinted with permission from The Blue Bottle Craft of Coffee: Growing, Roasting, and Drinking, with Recipes by James Freeman, Caitlin Freeman, and Tara Duggan. Copyright © 2012 by James Freeman; photographs copyright © 2012 by Clay McLachlan. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher
James Freeman is the founder and owner of Blue Bottle Coffee Company. After starting out in a tiny converted potting shed in Oakland a few years ago, Blue Bottle is now the country's leading artisan roaster, with six cafés in the San Francisco Bay Area, roasteries on both coasts, and a presence on the High Line and in Rockefeller Ceneter and Chelsea in Manhattan. In addition to its cafés, Blue Bottle is served in fine restaurants nationwide, including Chez Panisse, Gramery Tavern, Coi, and others, and regularly garners national media attention. See www.bluebottlecoffee.com for more.
Caitlin Freeman is the resident pastry chef for Blue Bottle Coffee Company and was a longtime owner of the San Francisco cake and sweets shop, Miette. James and Caitlin Freeman live in San Francisco, CA.
A staff writer for the San Francisco Chronicle's food section for ten years, Tara Duggan earned a James Beard Award for best newspaper column and was nominated for an additional James Beard Award for feature writing. She lives with her family in San Francisco, and this is her third book.


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The latest Part of the Criminal Law Journal includes the following articles: "How does the Australian public view parole? Results from a national survey on public attitudes towards parole and re-entry" – Robin Fitzgerald, Lorana Bartels, Arie Freiberg, Adrian Cherney and Shannon Buglar; and "Sentencing review 2015–2016" – Lorana Bartels. Also in this Part is an Editorial on "Greyhounds, sharks and prisoners, a contrast in the emergence of informed public policy"; and a Digest of Criminal Law Cases.
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Lindsay Lohan Arrest Warrant -- Paparazzi Defense
Lindsay Lohan Arrest Warrant: Paparazzi Defense
We know exactly why Lindsay Lohan is being hauled into court Monday and it's no big deal -- probably.
Here's why an arrest warrant was issued. Lindsay was in an alcohol ed program for more than a year and was in full compliance with her probation. Sources say not too long ago she decided to switch programs. She either was late or missed one of the classes at the new program -- she says because the paparazzi made it impossible for her to show up on schedule. So the program director sounded the alarm last week to the court. And that's why the judge issued a warrant.
Based on what we know this is not a big deal and Lindsay's new lawyer, Shawn Chapman Holley, should be able to have the warrant 86'd -- no problemo. The only wild card: There's a new judge on the case and she's really tough.
We're told Lindsay will not show for the appearance unless the judge decides she wants her there.
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Pre-K support was tied to income
While a majority of voters last week approved a local sales tax increase to fund an ambitious and comprehensive early education program, detailed voting and demographic data illustrate a city that was deeply divided on the measure.
Voters in far-North and Northeast Side precincts tended to cast ballots against the measure, while precincts inside Loop 410 almost entirely favored Pre-K 4 SA. Several precincts near the city's urban core and on the East Side also showed high levels of support.
A San Antonio Express-News analysis of precinct-level results, coupled with racial and income data from the U.S. Census Bureau, shows areas dominated by minorities tended to favor Pre-K 4 SA far more than areas dominated by Anglo voters.
The study also indicates a strong correlation between support for Pre-K and President Barack Obama, who won Bexar County but lost most of Texas.
Voters from low-, moderate-and middle-income areas were more likely to support the Pre-K initiative than were those from high-income areas.
Mayor Julián Castro, who staked his mayoral tenure on the success of the Pre-K initiative, acknowledged the differences.
"While I see a general pattern, I'm convinced that there was a good level of support across the city, even if that support didn't reach 50 percent in some precincts," he said. "I think what the election showed is that when you do something right — build a broad coalition — that you can get broad-based support. And of course, folks will have preferences that show themselves by income and background, but that's diminishing."
Portions of City Council District 9 — a Republican stronghold — favored the initiative, as well as precincts in District 8, which has historically swung between liberal and conservative council representation. District 10 is a predominantly conservative area as well.
Some political observers said they see a change in North Side voting habits based on the election totals for Pre-K, Obama and other Democrats.
While Republicans still hold the majority there, Democratic numbers are up.
In northern stretches of the city, opposition reached 60-plus percent — one North Side precinct opposed the measure by almost 73 percent — but in years past, that number would have been much higher, observers say.
In the North Side precincts, Pre-K was not entirely rejected by large margins. In a couple of precincts on the far Southeast Side, however, it was — by 77 percent to 83 percent of the vote.
Those precincts have a higher level of income than neighboring areas that supported the initiative.
In contrast, several inner-city precincts approved the measure by up to 83 percent, with more than 30 precincts supporting it at 75 percent or better.
Char Miller, a former Trinity University urban studies professor who's now director of the environmental analysis program at Pomona College in California, said a gulf remains between the perceptions of voters on the North Side vs. those on the South, West and East sides.
"I guess sadly, part of what we're seeing is the continual distinction between how Latino and black voters vote and how the largely white North Side votes on issues," he said, "particularly with this one that could have been seen as a metropolitan whole — that the whole of the community believes that all of its children should have a strong pre-K educational experience."
Of the 345 voting precincts that supported Pre-K 4 SA, 330 of them, or 95.7 percent, also supported Obama. And of the 155 precincts that opposed Pre-K 4 SA, 141, or 91 percent, also supported Mitt Romney for president.
Fifteen precincts that favored Romney included a majority of voters who supported Pre-K — a voting bloc targeted early on by the campaign, which hoped to woo independent and slightly right-leaning voters.
Miller said he expected to see a connection between Pre-K support and Obama's success in San Antonio.
"That would reinforce the larger arguments that are emerging in the wake of the 2012 election, that Republicans have missed a major opportunity to reach out to those who are not white, straight males," he said.
On Thursday, Castro acknowledged that his appearance as keynote speaker at the 2012 Democratic National Convention and subsequent stumping for Obama likely hurt the Pre-K initiative in the minds of some Republican voters.
"It probably didn't help much with Republicans, but it did help with Democrats — and it didn't make a difference with independents," he said. "Overall, most folks could separate the initiative from my role with the DNC."
Still, Castro and the campaign targeted right-leaning voters early on.
Pre-K 4 SA isn't only about the intrinsic pursuit of better academics but a pragmatic approach to bolstering the city's workforce for the future, supporters have said.
If the program is successful, it will help anchor existing business in San Antonio and attract new, high-paying jobs to the city, they've said.
Miller said that approach sounds strong, but he questions its effectiveness.
"While they may believe that language is appropriate, and they see it as a rhetoric designed to cultivate the North Side, the North Side actually doesn't care to support the interest of the whole," he said. "They're interested in their cul-de-sacs. And I think that's one of the dangers of a political environment that is cut off ... from the broader sweep of the community, and doesn't see a shared interest in bettering the lives of those who can, in fact, as the mayor said, boost the economic prosperity of the whole."
But it's possible the campaign swayed enough North Side voters to push the measure over the finish line. In the early vote, Pre-K was ahead by only 87 votes. On Election Day, however, 25,641 more voters cast ballots in favor of Pre-K than against.
Castro credited a strong campaign and volunteer force in the final days of the campaign to push voters to the polls.
That effort included Castro and his twin brother, Joaquín, who was elected Tuesday to the 20th Congressional District. They stood with supporters on street corners holding signs encouraging people to vote for pre-k.
"It was a good volunteer force (on Election Day), knocking on doors, getting folks out to the polls, calling people — it added up," Castro said. "It's always hard to tell how much, but it added up."
Castro also took to Twitter, sending out a large number of tweets and retweets about voting and supporting the initiative. It was an attempt, he said, to engage younger voters.
Now that the initiative has passed, Castro and the City Council will begin to move toward implementation. The council is poised to adopt lease agreements next week for the first two model centers that will open for the 2013-14 school year.
They'll also appoint a board of directors, which will, in turn, hire an executive director to handle the program's day-to-day operations.
The sales tax increase, which brings the rate in San Antonio to 8.25 percent, will go into effect April 1.
"Folks from across the city made a great decision to invest in education today so that we can be more economically prosperous tomorrow," Castro said "I am proud of the broad coalition behind the effort. It showed that in San Antonio, we're working well together to accomplish important things for our city."


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How your body corp could ban pets, turf you from your home
CROWDS packed a Caloundra Resort to get expert advice on one of the biggest proposed shake-ups to body corporate laws which could see owners turfed from units for new developments.
The changes recommended by QUT's independent property law review, commissioned by the State Government, could also give body corporates the power to ban pets from properties and make all areas on site, including balconies and common areas, smoke-free.
Other proposed changes including give body corporates the right to slap $220 fines on owners who breech by-laws and the ability to tow away vehicle's parked in visitor's car parks after a "reasonable period of time".
But the most concerning aspect of the proposed change was the call to allow body corporates to sell off a building if 75% of the owners agreed to this.
Frank Higginson from Hynes Legal, who spoke at the seminar at Rumba Resort, said this could mean elderly residents who didn't want to leave their units could be forced to sell up.
This proposed change was being pushed by the Property Council of Australia.
"The Property Council has been a long-standing and vocal advocate for strata reform in Queensland, strongly criticising the current requirement for unanimous consent to terminate a community title scheme," its website reads.
"The Property Council's submission to the property law review highlighted that the current legislation places financial and safety risks on owners, and holds back urban renewal in our major centres.
"Without reform, Queensland runs the risk of losing investment to other states that have adopted, or are looking to adopt, a 75 per cent termination threshold."
Mr Higginson said for a political perspective, it was not going to be easy to adopt a law change which could see elderly people lose their home.
However, he said consideration needed to be given on whether one person could block a building from having a necessary redevelopment.
"If you have a building with 50 lots on a beach front site and it is run down, corroding and needs work and 49 of the 50 owners say 'sell', should one owner prevent the others from realising their investment?"
"It needs to be just and equitable to happen, something a District Court could decide, but maybe it is time it came to an end?
"At the moment there in no mechanism to make it happen under the legislation.
"From a political perspective, one would struggle with a concept which forced grandma and grandpa out of a home of 30 years if they didn't want to go
"As lawyer, sitting on a fence, community living involves compromise. If you living in density, there has to be some give and take."
Mr Higginson said the by-laws regarding banning pets and smoking required a "resolution without dissent" and not a 75% vote to be approved.
This meant unit or duplex holders would one pet owner or smoker who voted against the proposed change would stop it from coming into force.
If the change was approved, pets in the complex would be allowed to remain until their death or their owners moved on.
Lyn Henderson, who owned a unit in Mooloolaba, supported the "majority rules" concept for redevelopment, but hoped body corporates wouldn't start banning pets like her border terrier, Tawny.
"It would be a shame not be able to have your pet or give it away to move into a unit." she said.
"It adds to value of units when it is pet friendly."
If the change was approved, pets in the complex would be allowed to remain until their death or their owners moved on.
Mr Higginson said under existing legislation, body corporates did not have the power to enforce a no-pet or no-smoking ban.
He doubted the proposed changes would lead to any law changes in this government as it was too close to election time.
Mr HIgginson said another concern at the seminar was the rise in Air B&B and the lack of legislation to control the phenomenal growth in this industry.
He said there was nothing in the pipeline to address this issue.


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|Antipathella (1)
The Antipathella corals belong to the group of black corals (those in the order Antipatharia), named after their dark brown or black skeletons (2). There are five species in the Antipathella group, all of which form branched structures (3) (4). Each polyp measures 0.5 to 1 millimetre across (5), and typically bears six simple tentacles arranged around a slit-like mouth (2). The skeleton is covered with a thin layer of pale, living tissue, which connects all the individual polyps (2), and the entire colony is covered with small protuberances (4) (5).
Unlike reef-building corals, many black corals (species in the order Antipatharia), do not possess the symbiotic algae, zooxanthellae, within their tissues. They are therefore not restricted to shallow, sunlit waters where the zooxanthellae can photosynthesise, and instead are able to inhabit deep and dark waters (2).
Little information appears to be available on the biology and life history of Antipathella species Antipathella fiordensis. A. fiordensis has separate male and female colonies (6), unlike the majority of corals which are hermaphrodite and thus possess both male and female reproductive organs. It is thought that this species reproduces primarily by spawning; eggs and sperm are released into the water column where fertilisation takes place. The fertilised egg develops into free-swimming larvae, which soon settles and attaches itself to the substrate, establishing a new colony. Spawning is thought to occur in mid- to late-summer (6). Genetic evidence has shown that A. fiordensis reproduces primarily by sexual means, but that some asexual reproduction also occurs. In a laboratory, they have been observed reproducing asexually via "polyp bail-out" (6), whereby polyps detach themselves from a colony, and form new colonies by normal budding (7). All black coral species are known to have a relatively slow growth rate and long lifespan (8).
Antipathella fiordensis occurs off New Zealand (4).
Antipathella corals are inhabitants of temperate marine waters, and are not thought to be able to survive in water exceeding 15 degrees Celsius (3).
Listed on Appendix II of CITES (1).
Information regarding Antipathella corals specifically is lacking, but like all black corals, it is likely to be impacted by over-harvesting for the jewellery trade. Black coral is highly valued in the jewellery trade because its dark skeleton can be polished to a lustrous sheen (8). Identification of black corals in the trade down to the level of genus is difficult; therefore it is hard to determine the extent to which Antipathella species are affected by such exploitation (8). Black corals around the world are also known to be impacted by habitat degradation, and recently, a small trade in live specimens for aquariums has been reported (8).
Antipathella corals are listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which means that trade in this species should be carefully regulated (1).
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Teacher Research Could Change Your Practice
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By Diane DeMott Painter, technology research teacher, Fairfax, Virginia
Teacher research can be a powerful form of professional development that can change a teacher's practice. But what is it exactly and what does it involve?
Teacher research is practical, action-based research. It enables educators to follow their interests and their needs as they investigate what they and their students do. Teachers who practice teacher research find that it expands and enriches their teaching skills and puts them in collaborative contact with peers that have a like interest in classroom research. Some researchers call this type of research "action research." By definition (Mills, 2002):
Action research is any systematic inquiry conducted by teacher-researchers, principals, school counselors, or other stakeholders in the teaching/learning environment to gather information about how their particular schools operate, how they teach, and how well their students learn. This information is gathered with the goals of gaining insight, developing reflective practice, effecting positive changes in the school environment (and on educational practices in general), and improving student outcomes and the lives of those involved.
What Do Teacher-Researchers Do?
Teacher-researchers simultaneously act as participants and observers as they conduct research in their own classrooms. With these dual roles, they complete the following tasks:
- Develop research questions based on their own curiosity about teaching and learning in their classrooms.
- Systematically collect data and research various methods of conducting research.
- Analyze and interpret the data and the research methodology.
- Write about their own research.
- Share findings with students, colleagues, and members of the educational community.
- Discuss with colleagues relationships among practice, theory, and their own research.
- Examine their underlying assumptions about teaching and learning.
- Assume responsibility for their own professional growth.
What Are the Effects of Teacher Research?
Teacher research can change a teacher's practice, but it can also have a profound effect on the development of priorities for schoolwide planning and assessment efforts as well as contribute to the profession's body of knowledge about teaching and learning.
Teacher-research projects often yield findings and implications that result in:
- Increased sharing and collaboration across departments, disciplines, and grade levels.
- Increased dialogue about instructional issues and student learning.
- Enhanced communication between teachers and students.
- Improved performance of students.
- Revision of practice based on new knowledge about teaching and learning.
- Teacher-designed and teacher-initiated staff development.
- Development of priorities for schoolwide planning and assessment efforts.
- Contributions to the profession's body of knowledge about teaching and learning.
Who Provides Support for Teacher Research?
For teachers to become involved in teacher research, they need additional time and resources to conduct, evaluate, and share their findings in meaningful ways. Fortunately in my school district, Fairfax County Public Schools, we have a number of resources available for teachers wishing to become involved in teacher research.
The Office of Staff Development and Planning (a division of Instructional Services) supports a network of teacher-researchers within our school system. The Office provides staff development funds to teams of teacher-researchers to meet periodically during the school year as they support one another in their research. Each spring, the Office holds an annual conference where teacher-researchers share their projects with members of the broad educational community in round table presentations and panel discussions. Workshops are also available on topics such as grant writing to support research and tips for publishing projects. Marion S. MacLean and Marian M. Mohr provide actual teacher research project reports by Fairfax County teachers in their book, Teacher-Researchers at Work (1999).
MacLean, Marion S. & Mohr, Marian M. (1999). Teacher-researchers at work. Berkeley, Calif.: National Writing Project.
Mills, Geoffrey (2002). Action research: A guide for the teacher researcher. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Merrill Prentice Hall.
Diane DeMott Painter is an NEA/VEA/FEA member working as a technology resource teacher for Fairfax County Public Schools. She is also the co-leader of the Fairfax County Teacher Research Network. She teaches a course entitled "Inquiry into Practice" to GMU graduate education students.


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An unthinkable alliance
Worlds apart; thrown together
A mysterious vortex has opened a passage between the LEGO universes. Now characters from DC Comics, The LEGO Movie and The Lord of the Rings are being sucked into each other's worlds. As reality begins to fall apart, it falls to Batman, Gandalf and Wyldstyle to join together and put things right.
Imagine the impossible as well-known characters from the LEGO multiverse trade worlds, swapping vehicles and gadgets in an adventure without precedent: Bad Cop in the Bat Mobile? Legolas helping Unikitty? To topple evil Lord Vortech, you and your LEGO heroes will have to think not just outside the box, but outside the universe.


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Coker Tire Officially Opens West Coast Facility
Kicking Off The 2014 Grand Opening With Custom Cars and Automotive Celebrities
In May 2013, Coker Tire moved into a 100,000-sq-ft facility in Southern California's City of Industry. Last Wednesday, January 22, the facility opened its doors to the public and they kicked it off with a party. Automotive celebrities, elected government officials, VIPs, and selected media were there to help celebrate the Grand Opening which featured a custom car display, live music, and a facility tour. The new facility will be a steel and wire wheel manufacturing plant for Coker Tire and will feature a large warehouse and distribution center.
"We were honored to celebrate the Grand Opening of our West Coast operation in City of Industry with so many California car guys, friends, business associates, celebrities and elected officials," said Coker. "While so many companies in the automotive aftermarket seem to be leaving California, we at Coker Group intentionally chose California with its huge automobile culture, availability of skilled work force, not to mention year round convertible weather. We now employ more than 40 California residents who produce steel and wire wheels and ship our collector tires and wheels from our new Los Angeles-area facility."
With all of the custom cars in their facility, Coker Tire eventually wants you to come see their mini-museum. For all of you enthusiasts out there, they also plan on letting you watch their wheels being made when they start holding guided tours of their wheel production space. We look forward to seeing more great things from Coker. Be sure to watch Corky Coker's new show Backroad Gold airing February 5th on Travel Channel.


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Austria was occupied at the end of World War II by the four Allies, but in contrast to Germany the four powers left in 1955—the condition being its declaration of permanent neutrality, on which the Soviet Union had insisted.
In the first half of the 1950s, relations with the new-founded European Coal and Steel Community were being discussed in Austria, because the organization encompassed Austria's two most important trading partners at that time, West Germany and Italy. But after the uprising in October-November 1956 in neighboring Hungary, Austria started to stress more its neutrality, excluding European Economic Community (EEC) membership. Instead, it joined other European countries to create a less integrated economic entity, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 1960.
Not until the mid-1980s did debate about membership in the now European Community (EC) start again. Economic problems and a narrower interpretation of neutrality led to Austria's application for EC (later European Union) membership in July 1989. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the application of other EFTA countries, Austria finally acceded to the EU on January 1, 1995 (along with Finland and Sweden). The political system and its economy adjusted relatively smoothly to the challenges of EU membership; the "social partnership," while losing some of its power, could maintain its influence on Austrian politics. Eastern enlargement of the EU brought further economic advantages for Austria.
As one of the smaller EU countries and a non-NATO member, Austria has a somewhat unique position in the EU. Environmental policy and supporting EU membership of the Balkan countries are among the important "niches" for Austrian EU activities. But the country has no close partners in the EU, because it is not participating in the "Visegrad" cooperation of the other Central European EU members. This difficulty clearly showed during the "sanctions" period of the EU-14 against the new Austrian government in 2000.
Keywords: Austria, European Union politics, neutrality, European Free Trade Association, European Economic Community, NATO
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Remember late last month when Sony removed two PSP games from the Vita's downloadable store to limit the spread of an exploit that allowed homebrew apps on the system? Well those games have been patched and replaced on the store, though the battle to get unsigned code running on the Vita is far from over.
New versions of both Motorstorm: Arctic Edge and Everybody's Tennis were back on the Vita's Playstation Network store as of Wednesday. The reposting follows Sony's release of a new version 1.67 firmware update that patches the exploit, paving the way for existing and new purchasers to redownload the games at their convenience.
While hackers that are already running programs like the Vita Halfbyte Loader through the exploit don't have to update to the new, patched firmware, they won't be able to access certain system features, including the PlayStation Network Store, until they do.
But Sony's protection efforts seem to be amounting to barely a bump in the road for the Vita hacking community. Videos have already popped up showing homebrew code running on the new 1.67 firmware, purportedly through another downloadable PSP game that has yet to be patched. The community at Wololo.net has vowed to release the details of the new hack to the public soon, and fully expects Sony to repeat history by quickly taking down the targeted game afterward. And we go round and round and round in the circle game.


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In an effort to boost traffic and revenue, McDonald's has rolled out a new "entertainment and marketing platform" that allows customers to screen videos and listen to music from Sony Pictures, Universal, and Sony BMG. The test of the new m-Venue system is only taking place at one location—Woodfield Mall near Chicago, which (if you've never been) is the sort of mega-developmentopolis that gives "suburban sprawl" its name.
Using the system, patrons can queue up songs and videos using text messaging or a WiFi connection, and the content then plays in a special "multimedia zone." The Woodfield multimedia zone contains 10 flat-panel screens capable of playing back the content, and the entire service is free—for now.
"Since launching m-Venue, we?ve increased our restaurant?s sales by nearly 17 percent compared to the same period last year," said John O?Keefe, owner/operator of the McDonald?s at Woodfield. "m-Venue empowers our customers to create compelling, interactive entertainment experiences. As a result, we?ve created a unique destination that brings us competitive advantage and attracts more customers to our restaurant."
The m-Venue system is powered by Akoo, which handles all of the backend magic that makes the system work. In addition to serving as a high-tech jukebox, the system also allows users to get more information on artists they see on the screens, and it will eventually allow people to purchase songs directly to mobile devices.
The platform also tracks costumer usage patterns and preferences, enabling McDonald's to better target promotions to people who use the service and to contruct more "opt-in" marketing campaigns that users will actually want to sign up for.
One imagines that the customers visiting the "restaurant" in order to dial up music videos are young, and that they choose to listen to the sort of things that older folks might not find appealing. Does McDonald's risk alienating other customers by allowing the sweet strains of Britney to blast through the restaurant? On the other hand, if traffic is up 17 percent, do they care?


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Texas Republicans are taking aim at another little lizard.
Last month it was the sand dune lizard of West Texas that was blocked from the endangered species list after Texas Republicans asked the Obama administration to deny that lizard protected status.
Today, a similar effort was launched by Sen. John Cornyn and Rep. John Carter of Round Rock to block four different species of salamanders from the list.
The lizards, found in Central Texas, were on their way to becoming "endangered" when Cornyn and Carter initiated new legislation to prevent the listing.
They previously sent a letter to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director Ben Tuggle. In this letter, Cornyn and Carter asked for a delay in listing the Austin blind, Georgetown, Jolleyville Plateau and Salado salamanders as endangered or threatened.
The two Texas Republicans say that listing the salamanders as endangered will hurt economic development and job growth.
"Endangered species listing decisions should be made with peer-reviewed sound science after ample input from state and local governments and researchers," Carter said in a statement. "The ongoing attempts by environmental extremists to circumvent this process through court action cannot be tolerated."
Tom Buckley, a spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said it is too soon to comment on what decision would be best, and that the decision that is ultimately made will be based on science and research currently being conducted.
The process of evaluation over whether or not a species should be endangered usually takes about a year, Buckley said in a phone interview yesterday. In the end, they will choose to list the species, not list the species, or "defer that action because of higher priorities—meaning other species that are in worse trouble and need to be focused on."
According to Cornyn, their bill intends to keep the salamanders off the endangered species listing in the face of "limited data."
"Our bill will head off a premature listing, allowing conservation efforts already underway to continue without hindering Central Texas from growing and creating jobs," Cornyn said.


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JIM HIGHTOWER: High time for hemp
Four years ago, Michelle Obama picked up a shovel to make a powerful symbolic statement about America's food and farm future: She turned a patch of White House lawn into a working organic garden.
I'm guessing that now, as she begins another four years in the people's mansion, the First Lady is asking herself: "What's next? What can I do this time around to plant a crop of common sense in our country's political soil that will link America's farmers, consumers, environment, and grassroots economy into one big harvest of common good?"
If she's asking this question, I'm happy to offer a one-word answer: Hemp. How about planting a good healthy stand of industrial hemp next to your organic garden?
Yes, hemp is a distant cousin of marijuana. But the industrial variety of cannabis lacks pot's psychoactive punch. Industrial hemp won't make anyone high, but it certainly can make us happy -- because it would deliver a new economic and environmental high for America.
Our nation is the world's biggest consumer of hemp products (from rope to shampoo, building materials to food), yet the mad masters of our insane and protracted Drug War have lumped hemp and marijuana together as "Schedule 1 controlled substances." Our Land of the Free is the world's only industrialized country that bans farmers from growing this benign, profitable, job-creating, and environmentally beneficial plant.
As Michael Bowman, a Colorado farmer, so aptly asks: "Can we just stop being stupid?" He's one of the leaders of a national, bipartisan movement to legalize hemp production. As one small step, he's seeking 100,000 signatures on a White House petition that simply asks President Barack Obama to honor the legalization of industrial hemp as a states rights issue, and to end its classification as a controlled substance. To sign, go to this website: petitions.whitehouse.gov.
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Rick Reid guests and we drill down into the recent IRS scandal, and essentially translate the geek speak to highlight they're lying. We also take a look at the booming industry of cloning cows in the United States. Later, we review Beyonce replacing Oprah as number 1 on Forbes' most powerful celebrity list; & then find the truth about those reports of North Korea's war-threats over a Seth Rogen movie.
Topics Discussed:
- Shout-Outs
- World War I Centennial
- IRS Scandal
- Cloning Industry
- Bobby Womack
- Beyonce / Forbes Most Powerful Celebrities
- North Korea and The Interview
- WTF: EPA Poopers
- #YesAllWomen
BlendoveR is the "trendover" podcast, bringing you the news that the news isn't covering. Presented by Greg Davies, we focus on topics that are not trending across the web and in the mainstream media, and have a knack accurate predictions of coming events, trends, and media coverage.
Rick Reid: Get To The Damn Point
Transformers: Age of Extinction Review
World War I Centennial
100th Anniversary of Start of World War I Approaches
Terrorist act a century ago launched World War I
When the world goes to war on a lie
Wikipedia: Railway Gun – World War I
Wikipedia: United States in World War I
IRS Scandal
Darrell Issa vs Irs Commissioner John Koskinen HEATED Over Lois Lerner Missing Emails
If the IRS was subject to Sarbanes Oxley act of 2002, employees involved in the Lois Lerner matter would be jailed
IRS contracted with email archiving company in 2005
IRS: So… Our Computer Crashed And Erased All Of Lois Lerner's Emails
Koskinen: IRS troubles 'suspicious,' but no crime uncovered
Missing E-Mail Is the Least of the IRS's Problems
Records Management by Federal Agencies
The Lost Emails of the I.R.S. Point to a Wider Problem
U.S. Archivist: IRS "Did Not Follow The Law" On Lerner Emails
Wikipedia: 2013 IRS Scandal – Missing IRS Emails
Wikipedia: Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
Wikipedia: Freedom of Information Act – E-mail
Cloning Industry
US company in Iowa churns out 100 cloned cows a year
Bobby Womack
Beyonce / Forbes Most Powerful Celebrities
Beyonce dethrones Oprah Winfrey on the Forbes 100 most powerful celebrity list
Wikipedia: Beyonce – 2013 and 2014
North Korea and The Interview
Internet Garbage: That 'North Korea Condemns Seth Rogen' Story Is Flimsy Nonsense
No, North Korea Did NOT Threaten War Over Seth Rogen Movie
WTF: EPA Poopers
EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway
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- "All Along The Watchtower" by Bobby Womack from the album Facts of Life


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DENVER -- Colorado court officials have vowed to review procedures to ensure that a clerical mistake that allowed the early release of a prisoner -- who then went on to allegedly shoot the state's corrections director last month -- doesn't happen again.
Judicial officials acknowledged Monday that Evan Spencer Ebel's previous felony conviction was inaccurately recorded and his release in January was an error.
In 2008, Ebel pleaded guilty in rural Fremont County to assaulting a prison officer. In the plea deal, Ebel was to be sentenced to up to four additional years in prison, to be served after he completed the eight-year sentence that put him behind bars in 2005, according to a statement from Colorado's 11th Judicial District.
However, the judge didn't say the sentence was meant to be "consecutive," or in addition to, Ebel's current one. So the court clerk recorded it as one to be served "concurrently," or at the same time. That's the information that went to the state prisons, the statement said.
So on Jan. 28, prisons officials saw that Ebel had finished his court-ordered sentence and released him. They said they had no way of knowing the plea deal was intended to keep Ebel behind bars for years longer.
Two months later, Ebel was dead after a shootout with authorities in Texas. The gun he used in the March 21 gunbattle was the same one used to shoot and kill prisons chief Tom Clements two days earlier.
Police believe Ebel also was involved in the death of Nathan Leon, who was killed March 17 after heading out to deliver a pizza.
"The Colorado Department of Corrections values its long-standing partnership with the 11th Judicial District and the district attorney's office to maintain order at the prisons in Canon City," Gov. John Hickenlooper's spokeswoman Megan Castle said in a statement.
"We commend both the 11th Judicial District and the DOC for reviewing their own internal processes and procedures."
Charles Barton, chief judge of the 11th Judicial District, and court administrator Walter Blair, said in a statement that the court regrets the oversight "and extends condolences to the families of Mr. Nathan Leon and Mr. Tom Clements."
Leon's widow said the apology wasn't going to cut it.
"How do I tell my 4-year-olds, 'Daddy was murdered because of a clerical error,'" Katherine Leon told KUSA-TV in Denver.
Leon's father-in-law told AP he had no immediate comment.
The attack that led to the plea deal took place in 2006. According to prison and court records, Ebel slipped out of his handcuffs while being transferred from a cell and punched a prison officer in the face. He bloodied the officer's nose and finger, and threatened to kill the officer's family.
"If Mr. Ebel was prosecuted for an assault on an officer, it had to be pretty severe, because in the course of day-to-day work, correctional officers are regularly assaulted or threatened," said Pueblo County Commissioner Buffie McFadyen, who is executive director of the correctional officer group Corrections U.S.A.
"It sounds like a horrific oversight," she said of the mistake that led to Ebel's release this year. "It's a tragic clerical error."
Ebel spent much of his time behind bars in solitary confinement and had a long record of disciplinary violations. Records show he joined a white supremacist prison gang.
Ebel's early release was just the latest twist in a case full of painful ironies. His father is friends with Hickenlooper and had testified before the Colorado Legislature about the damage solitary confinement did to his son. Clements was worried about that very issue.
Hickenlooper raised the case with Clements when the governor hired him to come to Colorado in 2011. The Democratic governor said he never mentioned Ebel's name and the inmate received no special treatment.
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The City Clerk is appointed by the City Manager; is the official custodian of City Records; serves as clerk to the Council; attends all Council meetings and keeps a record of all the proceedings; signs and attests all ordinances, resolutions, or other acts of the Council. To request records please visit Records Request Information.
The Department also issues City licenses and prepares City Council agendas and minutes.
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10 warning signs of stress
Taking care of someone with dementia requires time and energy. It can be a demanding and stressful task. Knowing and recognizing the signs of stress in yourself or someone you care about is the first step toward taking action.
If the following symptoms occur on a regular basis, call your doctor or contact your local Alzheimer Society for help.
- Denial about the disease and its effect on the person with the disease.
"Everyone is overreacting. I know Mom will get better."
- Anger at the person with Alzheimer's disease, yourself and others.
"If he asks me that question once more I will scream!"
- Withdrawing socially, you no longer want to stay in touch with friends or participate in activities you once enjoyed.
"I don't care about getting together with friends anymore."
- Anxiety about facing another day and what the future holds.
"I'm worried about what will happen when I can no longer provide care."
- Depression, you feel sad and hopeless much of the time.
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- Lack of concentration, you have trouble focusing and you find it difficult to complete complex tasks.
"I used to do the daily crossword. Now I am lucky if I can solve half of it."
- Health problems, you may lose or gain weight, get sick more often (colds, flu), or develop chronic health problems (backaches, high blood pressure).
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If food insecurity is not about global food shortages, what is it? Following the a vast body of literature and experience addressing food insecurity, it is the outcome of a complex interplay between:
- locally-accessible food production
- local livelihoods options that might provide sufficient, reliable income or sources of food
- local social relations (which mobilize and create social divisions by gender, class, age, etc.) which shape access to both livelihoods opportunities and available food within communities and even households
- structures of governance and markets in which that production takes place
- global markets for food and other commodities that can impinge on local pricing.
Changes in the natural environment play into this mix in that they generally impinge upon locally-accessible production and on global markets. The experience of the Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS-NET) provides evidence to this effect. FEWS-NET builds its forecasts through a consideration of all of these factors, and as it has gained resolution on things like local livelihoods activities and market pricing and functions, its predictive resolution has increased.
Despite decades of literature and body of experience to the contrary, it seems that the policy world, and indeed much development implementation, continues to view issues of hunger as the relatively straightforward outcome of production shortfalls that can be addressed through equally straightforward technical fixes ranging from changed farming techniques to new agricultural technologies such as GMOs. This view is frustrating, given its persistence in the face of roughly five decades of project failures and ephemeral results that evaporated at the end of "successful" projects. More nuanced work has started to think about issues of production in concert with the distribution function of markets. However, the bulk of policy and implementation along these lines couples the simplistic "technical fix" mentality of earlier work on food security with a sort of naïve market triumphalism that tends to focus on the possible benefits of market engagement with little mention or reasonable understanding of likely problematic outcomes. Put another way, most of this thinking can be reduced to:
increased agricultural production = increased economic productivity = increased food security and decreased poverty
The problem with this equation is that the connection between agricultural productivity and economic growth is pretty variable/shaky in most places, and the connection between economic growth and any specific development outcome is shaky/nonexistent pretty much everywhere unless there has been careful work done to make sure that new income is mobilized in a specific manner that addresses the challenge at hand. Most of the time, the food security via economic growth crowd has not done this last bit of legwork. In short, the mantra of "better technology and more markets" as currently manifest in policy circles is unlikely to advance the cause of food security and address global hunger any more effectively than prior interventions based on a version of the same mantra.
These issues present us with several key points about the problem we are trying to solve that should shape a general approach to food insecurity:
1) Because food insecurity is the outcome of the complex interplay of many factors, sectoral approaches are doomed to failure. At best, they will address a necessary but insufficient cause of the particular food insecurity issue at hand. However, in leaving other key causes unaddressed, these partial solutions nearly always succumb to problems in the unaddressed causes.
2) Production-led solutions will rarely, if ever, address enough significant causes of food insecurity to succeed. Simply put, while production is a necessary part of understanding food insecurity, it is insufficient for explaining the causes of particular food insecurity situations, or identifying appropriate solutions for those situations.
3) Increased production is not guaranteed to lead to economic growth. The crops at hand, who consumes them, the infrastructure for their transport, and national/global market conditions all shape this particular outcome, which can shift from season to season.
4) Economic growth does not solve things magically. Even if you can generate economic growth through increased agricultural production, this does not mean you will be addressing food insecurity. Programs must think carefully about where the proceeds from this new economic growth will go in the economy and society at hand, and if/how those pathways will result in greater opportunity for the food insecurity.
5) Embrace the fact complexity takes different forms in different places. In some places, markets will be a major cause of insecurity. In other places, environmental degradation might play this role. In still other places, failed governance will be the biggest issue driving food outcomes. In nearly all cases, though, all three of these factors will be present, and accompanied by others. Further, the form this insecurity takes will be highly variable within countries, provinces, districts, communities and even households, depending on the roles people play and the places in which they play them. There is no good template in which to fit a particular case of food insecurity, just a lot of causal factors that require extensive teasing out if one hopes to explain food outcomes and therefore address the problem.


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GNU gnu-pw-mgr is a password manager designed to make it easy to reconstruct difficult passwords when they are needed, while limiting the risk of attack. The user of this program inputs a very long initial password "seed" and a self-defined transformation of a web site URL to obtain both the password and a user name hint for that web site. The seed is stored in a hidden file. However, the passwords and the URL transforms are never stored anywhere. You must remember this transform (password id), or the password is lost forever.
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My work at the UN entailed attending meetings regarding sustainability and the management of Earth's resources…a sobering session! For the past two years I have be involved with the International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE), trying to help spread the word of sustainability and Earth resources to as wide an audience as possible. My part has been tiny, compared to that many working in the organization, especially Ed de Mulder who is currently pushing for a sustainable legacy from the IYPE, The Planet Earth Institute. One thing that never ceases to amaze me is how the education system has failed natural sciences, given our lack of understanding of the environment and resources that we so carelessly use and often abuse. I'm not one for getting on my 'soap-box' and preaching about how we should conduct our day to day lives, but when it comes to Earth resources, we tend to be as dumb as a piece of wood when 'managing' them. I have to admit that while the IYPE opened my eyes to the mismanagement of Earth resources, it also gave me hope that there is a band of folks out there working hard to bring about change….I step-down from my soap-box!
In Philadelphia I gave a quick presentation on 'Deconstructing Dinosaurs' at the Vet School this week. My talk was an attempt to reflect on the work of my colleagues and I, from the fields of palaeontology to the subatomic world of particle physics! The paper publish last Tuesday in PNAS took a very close look with 21st Century technology at an old bird, more than 150 million years old…Archaeopteryx.
the feathers, with no original chemistry remaining. Using SRS-XRF to accurately map the locations of major and trace elements such as sulfur, phosphorous, copper, and zinc, our team discovered that traces of the original chemistry of the Archaeopteryx feathers were still present.
Other results showed that the chemistry of the bones from this 150 million year old bird relative were similar to the concentrations that one would find most living birds, providing a chemical link between this ancient organism and descendant species such as pigeons, parakeets, and seagulls. The sensitivity of this technique also revealed details of the curation history of the specimen, showing how small parts were "repaired" and were not original to the fossil itself. The new technique has the potential to unleash the secrets of chemical fossils locked in the sands of time, only visible to the x-ray vision provided by synchrotron light sources.
After such a busy week, I'm ready for a treat...my first ever baseball game! Tonight, weather permitting (gosh, this is so like the UK) I hope to see the Phillies take on the Pirates...I had no idea that sport could be such swashbuckling fun!